The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-30

OF Sdlnuet ana DAVID u. S~lhlphlhs, htS
been very low for a week. She is
quite aged.
Joseph Vonte, of Salem, who was
employed 10y the residents to carry their
mail. has been arrested and held in
So 900 bail for robbing the mails.
The steam barge Victor, Capt. JOS
eph Webber, is undergoing repairs on
Barber's railway. John NJ. Walker
will be her pilot during tie truck sea-
son.
The Bridgeport and Repanpo, NJ. E.
Sunday schools made a joint excursion
to Pennsgrove OH Wednesday. About
200 came from along the railroad.
| There was also an excursion from Will
mington on Wednesday, three or four
hundred in number.
During the thunder storm last Sat
urday evening the barn on Joseph
~hourds farm in lower Penns Neck vas
struck by tightening and burned down.
The only loss was the barn and three or
four tons of hay, the stock and all
movable articles being saved. 1t was
insured for $500.
Eikinton Brothers lave sold their
sixty shares of the Prnnsgroye Pier
stock to the Delaware City, Salem and
Philadelphia Steam Boat Navigation
co. for $25 per share. They tried to
get Pennsgr0ve parties to purchase
enough stock to keep the controlling
/ interest here but were unsuccessful.
Two barns on the farm of Jos. Horn
er, near Auburn, were struck by light
ening aud burned. together with the
crops in them on Tuesday night. There
were two men sleeping in the barn.
! One was stunned but the other gave
the alarm soon enough to get the hor-
SEES out. A buggy and the harness
were destroyed.
John McCarson, who lives on Abne
II. Simki ISIS farm above Pennsgrover
shipped IL few water melons, the first,
of the season, from Pennsgroye to vii
mington on Monday. On Tuesday he
shipped half a wagon load. They
brought 27 cents a piece Reiiner
Heinrich shipped nearly II wagon load
on Thursday.
Tile schooner l.. X. C~ottinghan, Of
| which j. ID. Whitaker is captain, has
been indefinitely qu~arantined at Mo
bile, Ala, because in her passage there
she touched at Key West where there
is yellow fever. All the crew is in good
health. The Captain did not go on
her this trip because of the yellow few
Ell.
Hotel de French now has about eighty
boarders who, together with the tran
sient b~oarders, generally fill all the
ooms Persons, who want TO spend a
night in a cool place free from mosqni
toes. often come for miles to stay over
night in Pennsgrove. Host French
contemplates increasing his lodging
facilities for next year by building "a
second story over the rink and fitting
It mp with sleeping apartments.
The National Dredging Company has
finished its contract with the Govern
ment of widening and deepening the
channel of the Christiana Greek, Del.
Two hundred thousand cubic yards OF
mud was taken out. The channel
from Market street bridge To the Ell
trance of the creek has been widened
To IA uniform width of seventy-fiye
feet, and deepened to fifteen feet low
water.
The lawn patty at Charles Bowens
was IA enjoyable occasion to those III AT
tendance on Tuesday evening. Mrs.
W. f. Walker took LIST prize i'll wheel
lug a wIeelbarrow blind folded, and
Mr.. Claypoole, End, Miss May klemm,
took LIST prize for blowing the largest
soar bubbles and Bertha C~iaypoole. End.
The lawn was nicely decorated with
&
chinese lanterns.
The large red steamer laying at the
mouth of Christiana creek on Mon
day and Tuesday was the French steam
Ell Scotia which formerly piled between
New York and Marseilles and was
wrecked some time ago on the Ameri-
can coast. The Boston Tow-boat
company has purchased her for S53,00
and is having her converted into Il coal
barge for the Philadelphia Boston trade.
She will be the largest barge afloat and
will carry 1000 tons of coal.
On Tuesday of last week the District
Lodge of Good Templars held theil
quarter session in Pedri cktown. Thir'
ty received the district lodge degrees
In The session of the County Lodges
held at Pedricktown in July 1872 Rev.
G.. X. Morris presided. One of the
eight Lodges seuding delegates was
Nikomis, of Woodstown. No. 81
Pennsgrove Lodge, No. 1909, was the
Banner Lodge of the county. The
number of Good Templars in this coun-
ty at that time was 800.
On Monday the Grocers' Association
OF Wilmington made a large excursion
to Pennsgrove, There was about S5O
persons over. Business was generally
....l.I =. NI.k at .. IA. 4 L.. e, "a a1tannH
when $50 came over on the Mccall and
enjoyed themselves in dancing and
rowing over nur town. The grocerN
organized last winter for their mutual
benefit against bad debtors. 1t would
be well if gIocers in every town would
do the same as there is always some
who after running up "A large bill at
one store will leave it To get credit at